Theophrastus Quotes
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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He's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years.
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Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.
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Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.
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I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.
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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
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There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
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Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
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Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.
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I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
